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Lurid Moonbat Fantasy #62: Sarah Palin to usher in "Rovian" police state!!! | |
2008-09-23 | |
P.J. Gladnick, NewsBusters
Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state. Um, thanks for letting us "understand" how things work, Naomi. And from here, she regales us with a strong dose of melodrama: I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites ("the heart of America is on display") and realized Bush's speechwriters were writing her -- not McCain's -- speeches. I heard her tell George Bush's lies -- not McCain's -- to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners -- this is Rove-Cheney's enthusiastic S and M, not McCain's, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture. I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all the women in the Bush orbit --but who does not bother to style Cindy McCain. . . . You probably think Wolf's rantings could not get any more bizarre but it does. It does: Under the coming Palin-Rove police state, you will witness the plans now underway to bring Iraqi troops to patrol the streets of our nation. They "messed with his email?" You mean like how that Democrat hacker did with Sarah Palin's e-mail? Okay, sorry for the interruption. We return you now to Naomi Wolf Fantasy Theater: Am I trying to scare you? I am. I am trying to scare you to death and ask you to scare your Republican and independent friends most of all. How do you know when it is war on citizens? When there are mass arrests, journalists are jailed, the opposition is infiltrated, rights are stripped and leaders start to ignore the rule of law. Okay, enough with the regular political fantasies. Let us now watch Wolf's hard core paranoia: Almost everyone I work with on projects related to this campaign for liberty has been experiencing computer harassment: emails are stripped, messages disappear. That's not all: people's bank accounts are being tampered with: wire transfers to banks vanish in midair. I personally keep opening bank accounts that are quickly corrupted by fraud. Money vanishes. Coworkers of mine have to keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected. And most disturbingly to me personally is the mail tampering I have both heard of and experienced firsthand. My tax returns vanished from my mailbox. All my larger envelopes arrive ripped straight open apparently by hand. When I show the postman, he says "That's impossible." Horrifyingly to me is the impact on my family. My childrens' report cards are returned again and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back; and my daughters many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one arrived. Try explaining that to a smart thirteen year old. Try explaining it in a way that still makes her feel secure and comfortable. Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers... Oops! Wolf's diatribe caused your humble correspondent to channel Captain Queeg. . . . | |
Posted by:Mike |
#15 Compare wid FOXNEWS AM > AHMADINEJAD - THE AMERICAN EMPIRE IS NEARING COLLAPSE. Moud is prob doing the "PRO-BUSH BUT MODERATE POTUS MCCAIN + JIMMY CARTER II POTUS OBAMA + ANGRY RUSSIA-CHINA, etc = NUCLEAR IRAN/ISLAMISM = OWG CALIPHATE" Post-Jan 2009 Math??? |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-09-23 21:15 |
#14 James Taranto, "Best of the Web":What lies behind such fantasies? We suspect the answer is that for malcontented citizens of a free society, imagining that one is being persecuted is a means of self-affirmation, of styling oneself a hero. Like a nut in search of a squirrel, Wolf seeks validation in being preyed upon. She flatters herself that she is important enough for anyone to be interested in reading her mail. She even invokes the name of erstwhile Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky (though she misspells it). |
Posted by: Mike 2008-09-23 16:23 |
#13 Parebellum, are you a glutton for inanity or what? |
Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-09-23 16:03 |
#12 Her unhinged state was made very apparent during W's first term. She had a complete midlife crisis meltdown and wrote an article claiming that young women's preference for trimming of their nether regions represented some sort of repressive setback for the women's movement and that it was wrong that the sight of any naked female body in any state (read, her own) didn't excite modern young men into mad lust, followed by an embarrasing onscreen groping of a horrified David Horowitz on MSNBC a few weeks later. She seemed to disappear for a while after that, I assumed she was in counseling. I see that I assumed wrong. |
Posted by: no mo uro 2008-09-23 15:06 |
#11 Gawd - sand my eyes out - I did a google image search on her. |
Posted by: 3dc 2008-09-23 15:02 |
#10 Another brilliant extreme-leftist plan by Rarel Koveski, chief campaign strategist to Obama. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/mluphoup/RarelKoveski.jpg |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-09-23 14:41 |
#9 Naomi did have one brief moment of sanity, when she wrote "Fire with Fire" - wherein she pointed out that strict doctrinaire feminism was getting women nowhere... and if women were going to play seriously in the political world, we would have to let go of the man-bashing, the various 'loyalty tests' that the hard-line feminists were apt to apply to other women... and tolerate divergent views among us. Seriously, I wonder what happened to 'that' Naomi Wolf. It's as if the woman who wrote an eminently sane and realistic book about women and serious political power had been kidnapped, heavily medicated and sent to a reeducation camp, where she was made to produce this kind of insane dribble. |
Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2008-09-23 11:40 |
#8 Wolf was born in San Francisco, California in 1962 In 2006, the Sunday Herald carried an interview in which Wolf claimed to have taken on the spirit of a 13-year-old boy and saw Jesus Christ.[2] The paper called her comments "more than a little disturbing," and Salon magazine called the confession "truly outlandish." Camille Paglia derided Wolf as unable to perform "historical analysis," and called her education "completely removed from reality." Likewise, Christina Hoff Sommers criticized Wolf for publishing the claim that 150,000 women were dying every year from anorexia. Caryn James lambasted the book as a "sloppily researched polemic as dismissible as a hackneyed adventure film...Even by the standards of pop-cultural feminist studies, "The Beauty Myth" is a mess." After rejecting her thesis, the review leveled even harsher appraisal of her methodology and statistics, writing, "Ms. Wolf doesn't begin to prove her claims because her logic is so lame, her evidence so easily knocked down...Her statistics are shamefully secondhand and outdated." The New York Times published a stinging review that characterized Wolf as a "frustratingly inept messenger: a sloppy thinker and incompetent writer. She tries in vain to pass off tired observations as radical apercus, subjective musings as generational truths, sappy suggestions as useful ideas." The Library Journal excoriated the work, writing, "Overgeneralization abounds as she attempts to apply the microcosmic events of this mostly white, middle-class, liberal milieu to a whole generation....There is a desperate defensiveness in the tone of this book which diminishes the force of her argument." Slate Magazine wrote, "Both her evidence and her reasoning are deeply flawed...Her gaps and imprecision give fodder to skeptics who think sexual harassment charges are often just a form of hysteria." The Wall Street Journal wrote, "One is left with the unpleasant suspicion that Ms. Wolf wanted to get back into the spotlight and went rummaging in her basket of anecdotes until she found a juicy one to squeeze for publicity."[28] The Washington Post called for an end to "exaggerated victimhood as embodied by Wolf."[29] Author Camille Paglia described herself as "shocked" at the allegations and told the Guardian, "It really smacks of the Salem witch-hunts and all the accompanying hysteria. It really grates on me that Naomi Wolf for her entire life has been batting her eyes and bobbing her boobs in the face of men and made a profession out of courting male attention." Wolf has spoken favorably about the dress required of women living in Muslim countries. She observed The West interprets veiling as repression of women and suppression of their sexuality. But when I travelled in Muslim countries and was invited to join a discussion in women-only settings within Muslim homes, I learned that Muslim attitudes toward women's appearance and sexuality are not rooted in repression, but in a strong sense of public versus private, of what is due to God and what is due to one's husband. It is not that Islam suppresses sexuality, but that it embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channelling - toward marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures a home. According to a report by Michael Duffy in Time, Wolf was paid a monthly salary of $15,000 "in exchange for advice on everything from how to win the womenÂ’s vote to shirt-and-tie combinations." I read her Wikipedia page so you don't have to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf |
Posted by: Parabellum 2008-09-23 11:20 |
#7 Think Naomi knew who Sarah Palin was a month ago? I sometimes think we should enact this "Rovian Police State" just to make these people happy. |
Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-23 10:53 |
#6 It says a lot about the left (and the Huffington post) that they don't tar and feather her and laugh her out of the public eye for such nonsense. Naomi Wolf is watching the hardcore left control on the Feminist movement, and thus the "voice" of women being torn away and it is driving her insane. I would really love to see a blogger or journalist ask these people about their articles a year from now. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-23 10:22 |
#5 May I sell her a bridge in Brooklyn? Pretty please! |
Posted by: 3dc 2008-09-23 09:55 |
#4 Al Gore's former fashion adviser Strange profession ... I never put the word "fashion" and "Al Gore" together in a sentence before. Its not something obvious... |
Posted by: 3dc 2008-09-23 09:53 |
#3 Recently, on Drudge, I think, was a report that vegetables shrunk your brain. Need we more evidence than this? |
Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-09-23 09:48 |
#2 These moonbats ought to switch from vegan diets to something else. It seems to be driving them crazy. Maybe it's the obsession with global warming. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2008-09-23 09:41 |
#1 She's comparing Sarah Palin to Evita???? Ok....well...she was a sports reporter, so I guess that's kinda/sorta close to being a radio actress, but exactly what rank did Todd Palin hold in the military again? She's stuck in that "a woman can't attain power unless she marries into it or is born to it" BS. Stick to picking out earth tones for alpha males, sweetie. It's what you're best at. |
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2008-09-23 09:36 |